There are concerns that an increase in the number of new homes being built in the Cayton area is being done without suitable improvements to local infrastructure and services.
Councillor Roberta Swiers says the proposed development of 1,400 new homes in the nearby Mountby development will only add to expansions issues the village is already facing.
"In Cayton we have three building sites within the last two years, one of them is mainly social housing, but they are all sold before we even finish, so houses are needed.
However, we're a village.
You cannot alter the roads within the village. We have no bypass, the main traffic that's going to the A64 has to come through the village to get there.
I'm just really worried because obviously this Mountby is gathering pace. And I just think we need to get the basics right before we look at continuing building.
We do need the houses, but we need everything else round them to be correct for them to be built. "
North Yorkshire's Mayor says he is working to ensure any new housing developments on the Yorkshire Coast include appropriate upgrades to local services and infrastructure.
Mayor David Skaith says a new partnership with Homes England enables him to have a greater say on the issues.
"You can't just build houses, all the infrastructure has to come with it, which is why having that strategic place partnership with Homes England, we get that more direct voice into Homes England, to actually say what the housing requirements of our region are and how we can develop those plans with the communities and with the local area.
And so absolutely, I wholeheartedly agree. You can't just build, keep building houses on top of housing and have the same infrastructure.
And that's been the problem, that's been too siloed. Whereas now job is to basically have that overarching view of how, of, how transport, of how housing, how everything, all does come into it."
Persimmon Homes has been working on proposals for up to 1,400 dwellings, a primary school, and a local centre to be built on a 131-hectare parcel of land, which is located to the east of Scarborough Business Park and south of Cayton and Eastfield, would be known as Mountby.
The proposal was first revealed in 2018 and revised last year. According to the plans, the new ‘village’ would include a pond and village green to create a “welcoming open space” and a “distinct sense of place with potential for glimpsed outward views towards Oliver’s Mount”.
Seamer Parish Council, members have previously said that they were opposed to the scheme.
The parish council said it was concerned about the “environmental impact of building on further agricultural land as well as the proposed development being likely to exacerbate existing lack of capacity of old drainage and sewerage infrastructure”.
It also highlighted “the over development of Cayton village” and road access and traffic generation on the “already busy” Cayton Low Road.
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